Re: Newbie question on unions

From: Ron Natalie (ron_at_sensor.com)
Date: 10/11/04 

Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 10:05:29 -0400

Rolf Magnus wrote:

> Reading a member of a union after writing to another one is not allowed in
> C++. Most platforms I know will just give you a reinterpretation of the two
> char values as one short value, but the right tool to do this is a
> reinterpret_cast.

Except in the case of reading from a char or unsigned char aliased to
something else (unfortuntaely, this is the opposite of what is happening
in this case).

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